Objectives
The course will provide basic knowledge on different labour market policies and
social policy regulations in the Nordic countries, as well as systematic models of disability management in multi-national companies.
The course will increase employers' and other relevant actors' understanding of the specific gains and challenges related to employing people with disabilities. Special consideration will be given to not only the potential that this underemployed group of workforce provide, but also to the obligation of employers to provide reasonable accommodation for employees with disabilities.
The objectives of the course are to give participants an overview and understanding of the legislation combating discrimination in working life of people with disabilities. Also issues related to the relevant EU-directives and the newly adopted United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with disabilities will be taken up.
Course content
The course will be taught by the leading Scandinavian scholars in the research area, prominent experts of relevant legislation,
and experts of the relevant international human rights agreements. The different course segments will focus on common principles in
the Nordic countries. Other areas that will be covered are: The incentive structures for employers as well as employees, the vocational (re)habilitation models,
disability management methods, corporate social responsibility, and successful policy and solutions to provide employment to persons with disabilites.
Target groups
Human resource administrators in private and public business, occupational health professionals, administrators in social insurance,
labour market, and other authorities workning with vocational rehabilitation or placement of people with disabilities at the national,
regional, and local level, and representatives of labour market and disability peoples's organisations.
Registration fee
EUR 400 (accommodation and meals not included).
When paying the course fee please, indicate:
1. Your name 2. Course code: 4805.
The fee has to be paid four weeks before the start of the course to:
NIVA
Nordea Bank Finland Plc
Meilahti Branch, Tukholmankatu 2
FI-00250 Helsinki, Finland
Account no: 226238-2043
IBAN: FI79 2262 3800 0020 43
Swift code: NDEAFIHH
Please, note that if you cancel your participation
later than four weeks before the start of the course, (without an acceptable reason, e.g. illness) the organiser is obliged to charge a cancellation fee of EUR 273.
Course leader
Prof. Stig Larsson
Lund University
Dept. of Health Sciences
University Hospital
SE - 205 02 Malmö
Sweden
Tel. +46 04 39 13 51
stig.larsson@med.lu.se
Course co-ordinator
Annika Bärlund
NIVA
Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A
FI-00250 Helsinki, FINLAND
Tel. +358 30 474 2333
E-mail: annika.barlund@ttl.fi
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